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Why people get surprised with that stuff?

Whenever you don't understand how people can think things on the internet, consider that they might be younger than you. They may not be, but it makes the world far less rage inducing. None of us are born knowing everything.

Did Anthropic, unlike Open AI, forget to offer free equity to the government?

“Thats a pretty nice IPO you got there… it would be a shame if something happened to it.”

This and we already did a dry run of ad-hoc distributions with COVID relief. They had to use the data from tax filings but it did work in terms of getting the money out there.

They borrowed $40B from JP Morgan. They literally did not have the money otherwise.

Dimes Square consists of a series of late-night interactions in a Chinatown apartment. The apartment belongs to Stefan, a rich, connected writer who has attracted a social circle by virtue of his strategically applied charm, vague promises of professional opportunities, and abundant supply of cocaine.

I lived for years in the LES adjacent to “Dimes Square” and I was on the periphery of the art scene.

Not covered in this essay at all is how the cost of living in NYC is dramatically higher than during the “good old days” of 80s and 90s downtown scene.

It was cheap for a reason - my cousin literally had an illegal art squat he paid $0 for - but low rent also changed who was able to be on the scene.

Add-in the skyrocketing costs of private colleges, and the scene increasingly is populated by the children of the very comfortable to the obscenely rich.

And unsurprisingly, those that grow up with status to are far more risk averse and solipsistic as well.

Warhol, Herring and Basquiat did not have trust funds, and it was all for the better.

I didn’t like studying chemistry at all when I was your age. But I also didn’t like physics until I took a class thar focused on it in a practical way. So definitely listen to your interests but perhaps you’ll find a better on-ramp to chemistry if you focus on food chemistry or something else more pragmatic.

But cheers for showing support to high quality science content on YT. Appreciation is a great instinct to nurture.

Same. We've all fooled ourselves into believing that an LLM / stochastic process was finally solved based on a good result. But the sample size is always to low to be meaningful.

Yes and MSFT sells it on Azure as Signal iirc

NPR voice is a thing.

It started with Ira Glass voice and now the default voice is someone that sounds like they're not certain they should be saying the very banal thing they are about to say, followed by a hand-shake protocol of nervous laughter.

Clarifying the pricing would make it easier to value the revenue from current and future users. And naturally they rounded up to leave themselves literal margin for error.

Etymology: like others said, the old version of cap was short for a bullet. And that term most likely comes from “cap guns” which are/were you guys for kids that had a tiny tiny amount of gunpowder/similar so they made a small noise when fired.

So a bit of speculation, but it’s possible that the word cap has inverted twice over the years, from a toy/fake bullet, to a real bullet, and now back to being a synonym for fake, which it originally was.

Any guitarist that places outside of the house will have no problem inflicting enough damage on their guitar to make it unique.

So did I and having chosen it once, I still thought "well, I'll hear this out..."

Try this: get the travel version of a water pick / flosser. They’re like $30 and you refill them from a tap. Now put it in your shower and make it part of your shower routine.

No mess. Easy to fill. No discomfort. Almost impossible not to use at that point.

So he did what… made a boom bap, cat-in-the-hat rap musical and put it in midtown to save them the drive?

Lin-Manuel Miranda loves letting people think he came from the streets when his Dad is a political consultant that worked for multiple mayors and presidential campaigns and his mom is a psychologist. Lin Manuel went to one of the most prestigious magnet schools in the Upper East Side and then went Wesleyan, which is one of the most prestigious private liberal arts colleges.

He shouldn’t talk about his customers like that.

If you've ever seen someone that naturally takes to gambling - like they play, lose, and immediately think they must be due to win now! - that's probably a good analogy as any for how some brains can be more likely to get addicted to activities like this.

IRC is back and I love it

Reddit requested to interview me once. It was the least professional company with which I’ve spoken.

I had the same problem while designing an AI related tool and the solution is simple: ask the user a clarifying question as to whether they want a specific ethnic background or default to random.

No matter what technical solution they come up with, even if there were one, it will be a PR disaster. But if they just make the user choose the problem is solved.

Huh? Have you not used the search feature in Slack or Discord?

Whether it's a forum or a chat, the data structure is largely the same, especially with Slack/Discord as they have threads.

What exactly is the problem here? Is a non-profit expected to exclusively help impoverished communities or something?

Yes. Yes and more yes.

That is why, at least in the U.S., we have given non-profits exemptions from taxation. Because they are supposed to be improving society, not profiting from it.

REST Client extension in VSCode. Just a file that makes requests and lives in your repo. No totally unnecessary SaaS business with per user licensing fees.

Yes. The people involved in tech changed to a non-trivial degree over the last 15 years.

I grew up in a family that made software and I’ve been a professional myself for over twenty years.

The post-2008 cheap money era brought a huge influx of people that, at best, were not technology enthusiasts or tinkerers. A similar thing happened in the dot com era but a lot of those people got pushed out by the crash. We’ll see what happens this time.

Burn-out is included in the 11th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) as an occupational phenomenon. It is not classified as a medical condition.

Internet doctors in shambles after learning they're just occupational therapists.

Cheers. Nice to see something whiskey related that isn’t trying so hard to communicate the usual whiskey stereotypes.

The write-down might be fair. But the lesson I see with Reddit, Discord and Twitter is that letting a public company own even a tiny slice of your private company is a terrible idea.

Despite only owning a point or two of multi-billion dollar companies, they implicitly get pricing power over the entire cap table.

The Wolf Hall book series is a great read also, albeit much much longer.

Can you contrast your product with Liveblocks? I am considering it for a real-time application.

Same. Also Apple payments are great for subscriptions, as like PayPal, they provide a control center to cancel subscriptions. For things like streaming services where I know I only need it for a month, I cancel them within seconds of signing up.

You might like Cog. It solves these problems for ML projects in specific.